With the first weekend of Musikfest behind us, now we settle in to the hard-core festers, who take to the streets of downtown Bethlehem even on weekdays.Here are the top free acts we think you're going to see today:The Badlees, 7 p.m....

The San Francisco scene spawned The Steve Miller Band and the rock band Journey, who from 1976-82 each sold more than 20 million albums and together had nearly 20 Top 10 hits, many of which still are popular nearly 40 ...

Singer-songwriter Randy Newman, country singer Jo Dee Messina and actor/singer Danny Aiello, along with a cache of comedy and a long lineup of Broadway and stage performances highlight the 2014-15 season of The State Theatre in Easton, which was announced ...

Kudos to ArtsQuest for bringing back Splintered Sunlight, a Grateful Dead tribute band, to the Levitt Pavilion on Sept. 4. The size of the crowd, of all ages, proves once again that the music of Jerry Garcia is the ultimate celebration of life. At a...

When the Daughters of Charity awakened June 27, 1863, the pastoral grounds of their Emmitsburg, Md,. property had become a Union Army encampment for thousands of Union Army officers and men destined to fight during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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A member of one of Rolling Stone magazine’s greatest bands of all time who hasn’t toured in a decade is coming to Allentown’s Miller Symphony Hall. Robert Hunter, who as lyricist for The Grateful Dead is the only non-performing member ...

When Rob Hunt moved to Berks County 20 years ago, he says he found the vistas so beautiful it suggested music to him. Literally. Hunt quickly found out he wasn’t alone, and that music was part of the fiber of ...

It’s almost pointless to review a jam band concert, let alone a jam band festival such as The Peach Festival that today, Aug. 18, enters the last of its four days at Toyota Pavilion at Montage in Scranton. The music ...

Here are the Top 5 Concerts of the Coming Week: 1. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE When Justin Timberlake came through Philadelphia with Jay Z on the Legends of Summer Tour in August, he had a new album, “The 20/20 Experience,” that debuted ...

A prominent psychic has just announced a show at Sands Bethlehem Event Center. Can you divine which one it is? A stage production of a popular game show also is coming to the venue. Lisa Williams, the English medium and ...

Dave Howell Special to The Morning Call It was jam band night Tuesday at the Musikfest Café, with a three-hour show by 7 Walkers. Papa Mali (Malcolm Welbourne) led the band through long Grateful Dead covers and music from the ...

ArtsQuest has just announced a new spate of shows for its ArtsQuest Center, and it includes five surprises. Mickey Hart Band’s show Jan. 5 might at first blush seem like a surprise. But the former Grateful Dead drummer is just ...

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart is bringing his Mickey Hart Band to Musikfest Café at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem on Jan. 5, and ArtsQuest is giving you a chance to win get on Hart’s guest list for ...

The Mickey Hart Band is all about the groove, as it showed Thursday night in the Musikfest Café at Bethlehem’s SteelStacks. Hart, a former drummer for the Grateful Dead, brought in a lot of his former band’s sound, while adding original songs and an empha

Over an almost unfathomable 60-year professional career, blues harmonica player James Cotton has played with many of the genre’s greatest names: Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. He’s won a Grammy Award and been inducted in the Blues ...

Of all the genres ArtsQuest covers in its seven music festivals at its SteelStacks campus, probably the most improvisational is the jam band music of SteelJam. Victor Wooten So maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that the second SteelJam festival, ...

The Peach Festival , whose inaugural year brought The Allman Brothers, Zac Brown Band and a dozen other bands Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, will return for a second year, organizers just announced. But you may like it ...

Penn’s Peak, the sprawling mountaintop music venue near Jim Thorpe, this month marks 10 years of operations, and in that time has seen 700 to 800 shows by artists playing country, rock, pop, jam band, blues and just about any ...

Cyndi Lauper, Toby Keith and Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June.
The organization announced Wednesday that Linda Perry, country music songwriter Bobby Braddock and "Hoochie Coochie Man"...